Tag: Middlebury Community Interest

Open Access Week: What is It?

Open Access Week is an international event that raises awareness of the many benefits of making research free and open for others to use. This year’s theme is “Open for Whom? Equity in Open Knowledge,” which asks libraries and researchers around the world to consider how they will create and support platforms for sharing knowledge […]…Continue Reading Open Access Week: What is It?

Bye-bye Summon, Hello LibrarySearch

The Library has hundreds of databases, indexes and catalogs, providing access to millions of articles, books, films, musical recordings and primary sources.  That sounds promising… until it sounds overwhelming. Where should you start your research? We used to recommend Summon, but over the summer, we replaced Summon with LibrarySearch.   Like its predecessor Summon, LibrarySearch is […]…Continue Reading Bye-bye Summon, Hello LibrarySearch

ITS Tech Services Overview Offered December 11 – for New (or not-so-new) Hires

Information Technology Services (ITS) offers a monthly workshop with recent hires in mind called “ITS & You:  Technology Services Overview.”  The next session will be held Wednesday, December 11 at 9:00 a.m.  We’ll introduce services and resources provided by ITS to all Middlebury employees, including:  online learning, file storage, self-service software installation, access to  computing […]…Continue Reading ITS Tech Services Overview Offered December 11 – for New (or not-so-new) Hires

LibrarySearch!

LibrarySearch is here! This fall, the library is switching from Summon to a new discovery platform from EBSCO, which we are calling “LibrarySearch.”  LibrarySearch will work very much like Summon: it will still retrieve results from the library catalog (MIDCAT), and it will still find article-level results from our subscribed journals and databases (as well […]…Continue Reading LibrarySearch!

Interlibrary Loan Service changes

Dear Library Patrons:You may have noticed that turnaround times to complete ILL requestshave of late at times been slightly longer than in the past.  As aresult of workforce planning, we have reduced the number of staffworking in this department by .5 FTE. We will of course continue tofill requests as quickly as we can, but […]…Continue Reading Interlibrary Loan Service changes

Summer Reading!

Summer’s almost here! The library has added 30 new titles to our print browsing collection, and another 30 (including many non-English titles) to our collection of e- and audiobooks (go/overdrive/). These books are available for borrowing by t……Continue Reading Summer Reading!